2-18-09

     I've only been here for half a day and I'm having a completely amazing time! The flight to Guadalajara was pretty cool, a Hispanic guy told me a lot about Guadalajara. Haha! He actually wanted me to go with him to a fiesta of some sort. He was pretty funny, he kept saying "man you better watch it there are a lot of pretty women in Tepatitlan you might fall in love and never leave!"Sister Threasa and Pepe came to pick me up. I had talked to Sister over the internet using skype so she remembered my face. Pepe is a 16 year old that lives at the Casa Hogar. He knows a little English, he's a really cool kid. Sister Threasa is pretty good with her English too! The funny thing is that she told me no English only talk in Spanish. Sp basically I just said what my friend Angelle had told me a few days ago, thanks Angelle! I ran out of things to say so I kept saying "como say dici"(which means , How do you say?) and pointing at things, haha.

     So the Casa Hogar is completely amazing I think it's so much cooler in person then the pictures that I've seen! Oh, and the city Tepatitlan(Tepa) is really beautiful and really clean. I'll post pictures soon!

There are so many kids here! It's crazy! I'm not sure that I've met all of them yet. I'm trying to remember all the names that I can. I think that there are about 90 total from all the different ages. All the little kids were surrounding me and asking me so many things that I had no idea what they were saying. All the Sisters are really awesome as well. It's funny to talk with some of them because they speak a little English and they say como say dici as well when they are trying to say something in English.

There is an older guy that’s from Italy that’s here right now. He speaks English, although he often mixed his English with Italian and Spanish. I think that he’s going to show me where the children need to be dropped off at the school. I think that may be one of the jobs I’ll be doing!